A review by michelleful
A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall

4.0

I largely enjoyed this cosy mystery. The plot was pretty good, I liked the way the first clue was re-interpreted over and over again. The writing was...bleh. There was some amount of head-hopping, which I loathe, and there was nothing to write home about with the prose. The puzzle at the beginning is largely a gimmick. I thought at first that at some point you would have to solve it to figure out what happened and then continue, but it's really just a post-hoc thing. But I liked the characters and the plot. I'm not sure how sustainable it is over 20 books though!